Business-to-business CMOs need to stay current on emerging technologies that improve customer engagement. This Forrester Research report overviews new technologies marketers us to improve customer acquisition and engagement at different stages of the customer life cycle.

When it comes to content production, marketers across
the globe can let out a collective “we’ve got this.” Content
marketing is now the cornerstone of most organizations’
marketing strategies. In fact, 91 percent of all B2B companies
use content marketing. And 38 percent of North American
marketers say they expect their content marketing budget
to increase in the next 12 months. We’ve invested heavily in
it because it works.

Content marketing forges trust. And builds affinity long before a prospect is ready to buy. This makes potent content pivotal to success. Avoid lackluster content and achieve peak performance with these quick tips.

The ability to create high-volume, high-relevance, and high-velocity content is very important for B2B marketers. The Adobe and Econsultancy B2B Digital Trends 2016-2017 report dives into all the latest digital trends and opportunities that are impacting B2B. So that you can set the new standards.
Read the report to learn:
• The many priorities within CX and the push to improve CX
• The importance of data driven marketing within CX
• Why integration across all touchpoints is essential

Like a game of chess, content creation requires strategy. This eBook is not designed with the goal of teaching you how to play safe. It is designed to help you achieve significant wins with content that engages your audience.

The problem here is pretty clear — in order for B2B marketers to maximize their content marketing ROI, they’re going to need to figure out a more effective way to increase content consumption and engagement. But how can you improve your content’s performance when no one can find your content in the first place?

B2B demand generation has almost completely re-invented itself over the last decade. The collision of inbound, content marketing, lead nurturing, marketing automation, analytics, email, search, social media and native advertising has transformed the discipline from a dark art to an increasingly data-driven science. But there’s a problem.
When it comes to helping to land and expand these major deals, today’s marketing teams are seriously handicapped. The Clear & Complete Guide to Account Based Marketing (ABM) is your guide to solving this problem. It will take you, step-by-step, through this fast-emerging discipline, showing you how to align your sales and marketing team around a strategy that’s optimized for the biggest, most important deals.

B2B demand generation has almost completely re-invented itself over the last decade. The collision of inbound, content marketing, lead nurturing, marketing automation, analytics, email, search, social media and native advertising has transformed the discipline from a dark art to an increasingly data-driven science.
But there’s a problem
When it comes to helping to land and expand these major deals, today’s marketing teams are seriously handicapped. The Clear & Complete Guide to Account Based Marketing (ABM) is your guide to solving this problem. It will take you, step-by-step, through this fast-emerging discipline, showing you how to align your sales and marketing team around a strategy that’s optimized for the biggest, most important deals.

In a free audio/video Webcast with MarketingSherpa’s Anne Holland, learn valuable, tested B-to-B marketing tips, including how to stop spending too much on SEM while making your remaining SEM budget work harder... how to make prospects pay attention to your content... the key difference between case studies and success stories... when—and why—you should consider removing the registration page... and more. Don’t miss these proven tips—watch the free 30-minute Webcast now.

As an industry, our ability to seize the potential for social media for lead generation is stifled by one thing: an outdated mindset. We still think advertising is advertising and social media is something else. In fact, advertising and social media are the same thing: they're content. The moment we realize that all marketing is content, we can break through the campaign mindset and find new ways to fuel powerful brand interactions-the kind that fuel transactions. In this white paper, you'll learn about several ways to transform your Web site into a lead generation machine with distributed content marketing.

Curious about how B2B enterprise content marketing has changed in the last year, or how enterprise marketers differ from their peers overall? This report from Content Marketing Institute, MarketingProfs, and Marketo covers tactics, strategies, challenges, budgets, and tools of enterprise B2B marketers in North America.

As a marketing leader, you have to step up and take charge for changing the way your company thinks about its most important asset – its relationship with its prospects and customers. Answer the call – become a B2B Marketing change agent today.

Today’s B2B buyers are on the hunt for information. Your job as a marketer is to provide them with the content they are looking for - but first you have to know who they are and what they need to know. Get to know your buyers better by building composite profiles that describe their pain points, motivations, definitions of success, preferred communication channels, and more.

Everything you need to know now to be successful in today’s buyer-driven market - from selecting the right marketing automation platform and developing customer-centric content, to identifying and reporting on the right metrics to demonstrate and predict marketing’s impact on sales and revenue.

59% of marketers are using webinars in their B2B content marketing strategy. While they require a significant level of effort to produce,
webinars can provide a great return on investment. Fill your content pipeline by repurposing webinar assets into other pieces of content and extending the topic into other formats. Here are 19 pieces of content that can be created from every webinar.

Industrial customers use content to research and make purchasing decisions. Are you giving them the info they need? Developed by IHS GlobalSpec, this white paper explains the growing importance of using content to attract, acquire and engage engineers and technical professionals.
Content marketing positions your company as an expert, builds trust and introduces new products and services to a wider audience via webinars, technical articles, social media and more. Find out which content appeals most to technical professionals. Learn how to provide information that fulfills their needs at specific points in the buying cycle. And see examples of how and where industrial suppliers effectively use content marketing to deliver information that can help turn shoppers into buyers.
Content Marketing for Industrial Marketers also explores the challenges of producing enough of the right content, repurposing it across multiple channels and budgeting for it. Plus, it provides the steps to start dev

B2B marketers, like their B2C colleagues, have diligently worked at perfecting the art of shaping customer and prospect perceptions. They have years of experience developing precisely targeted communications comprised of finely tuned content directed at the specific audiences they want to influence. Traditional brand marketing requires the engineering of messages that engender the right impressions about the company’s products in the marketplace. The traditional art of branding has grown and flourished for many years. But that’s all begun to change.

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